Norma Bloor Bowles Utley died on June 21, 2008 at the age of 103. She was born in Pullman, Washington on March 25, 1905 to Walter Ray and Cleo Holt Bloor.
When she was two years old, her family traveled across Canada by train to Cambridge, MA, stopping for a few weeks in her father's hometown, Ingersoll, Ontario, where Norma and her twin brother came down with diphtheria; her brother did not survive.
Her mother educated her at home until she was eight years old, when she asked to go to "real" school and was enrolled in a public school in Brookline, MA, where she was placed in fifth grade.
A few years later, her father accepted a teaching post at Washington University in St. Louis; her second brother was born there on her 11th birthday. When Norma was fifteen, the family drove across country to Berkeley, CA, where her father taught at the University of California and she graduated from high school in 1922.
At that time there were then few, if any, paved roads between the Mississippi River and San Francisco and no motels at all; they camped along the road, and spent more than a week at the lodge in Yellowstone Park, while her brother recovered from measles.
One last cross-country drive took the family to Rochester, New York, where her father became founding Associate Dean of the Medical School at the University of Rochester. Norma graduated from The University of Rochester and, after spending a year in Cleveland, Ohio earning a Master's degree in physiology, was awarded the Doctor of Medicine degree by The University of Rochester School of Medicine in 1931.
After internship at Bellevue Hospital in New York City, she did a residency in pediatrics at Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester, NY, where she fell in love with a fellow resident, Arthur R. Bowles. They lived in Valhalla, NY until their second daughter was born, then in Canandaigua, NY, and Winnetka, Illinois, where Dr. Arthur Bowles died, in 1941 at the age of 35. Norma returned to her parents' home in Rochester and left the little girls with them while she went to Madison, Wisconsin to do a residency in anesthesia, arriving there on December 7, 1941.
She and her daughters spent the war years in her parents' home, while she worked as staff anesthesiologist at St. Mary's Hospital. In 1945, she joined the anesthesia department at the Reading Hospital in Berks County, PA and lived in Wyomissing until 1950, when she joined Craig Larimer, MD in the anesthesia practice here in Colorado Springs.
When her daughters had both graduated from high school and gone on to college, Norma filled her free time with community service, serving a term as Chief of Staff at Memorial Hospital, several terms as a board member for the (non-profit) Rocky Mountain Rehabilitation Center, the Visiting Nurses Association, Parents Anonymous, and the Girls' Club, and working as a volunteer for many years at the Episcopal Women's Thrift House. She was also a long-time member of the Soroptomist Club, the Fine Arts Center, and Grace Episcopal Church.
In 1961 Norma married Tabor E. Utley, a well-known local artist, and moved to his hand-made adobe house north of town. They enjoyed traveling and entertaining friends, and she developed flower gardens "in keeping" with the style of their home. She transferred her church membership to the Church of St. Michael the Archangel soon after it was founded and spent untold hours on a wide variety of responsibilities, including establishing the church library, membership in the vestry, and serving on several pastor selection committees.
She also served on the Executive Council of the Episcopal Diocese of Colorado, on the diocesan Commission on Aging, and as a Provincial Coordinator for the Episcopal Society for Ministry on Aging. Mr. Utley died in 1978; Norma moved into assisted living in 1993 and to Cheyenne Mountain Care Center in 1994.
Her family is forever grateful for the extraordinarily loving care lavished on her by every member of the staff of the Care Center, especially those assigned to Columbine Station, from her early years when she was an active participant in the Residents' Council right through the final months, when she had mostly withdrawn into her own world and no longer responded to their efforts with even a smile.
Their unfailing kindness was an enduring comfort to us as well as to our mother and grandmother. Norma is survived by her daughters and their husbands: Nancy and Joseph Ellin of Kalamazoo, Michigan, and Carol Bowles and David G. MacPherson, of Colorado Springs; grandchildren Timothy Parker (SuzanneTrottier) of Portsmouth, NH; David Ellin (Christine Ellin) of Seattle, WA; Jane Ellin (Rory dela Paz) of Brookline, MA; and Libby Tyndale (Sudarshan Chawathe) of Trenton, ME, and by three great-grandsons and a great grand-daughter who is due to arrive next week.
Preceding her in death were her parents, her twin brother, both husbands, and her younger brother, Robert J. Bloor, M.D., late of Pueblo West.
A memorial service will be held on Thursday, July 3 at 2:00 p.m. at St. Michael's Episcopal Church, 7400 Tudor Road. In lieu of flowers, Norma requested that contributions be made to St. Michael's Church or to a rehabilitation-related charity of the donor's choice.
When she was two years old, her family traveled across Canada by train to Cambridge, MA, stopping for a few weeks in her father's hometown, Ingersoll, Ontario, where Norma and her twin brother came down with diphtheria; her brother did not survive.
Her mother educated her at home until she was eight years old, when she asked to go to "real" school and was enrolled in a public school in Brookline, MA, where she was placed in fifth grade.
A few years later, her father accepted a teaching post at Washington University in St. Louis; her second brother was born there on her 11th birthday. When Norma was fifteen, the family drove across country to Berkeley, CA, where her father taught at the University of California and she graduated from high school in 1922.
At that time there were then few, if any, paved roads between the Mississippi River and San Francisco and no motels at all; they camped along the road, and spent more than a week at the lodge in Yellowstone Park, while her brother recovered from measles.
One last cross-country drive took the family to Rochester, New York, where her father became founding Associate Dean of the Medical School at the University of Rochester. Norma graduated from The University of Rochester and, after spending a year in Cleveland, Ohio earning a Master's degree in physiology, was awarded the Doctor of Medicine degree by The University of Rochester School of Medicine in 1931.
After internship at Bellevue Hospital in New York City, she did a residency in pediatrics at Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester, NY, where she fell in love with a fellow resident, Arthur R. Bowles. They lived in Valhalla, NY until their second daughter was born, then in Canandaigua, NY, and Winnetka, Illinois, where Dr. Arthur Bowles died, in 1941 at the age of 35. Norma returned to her parents' home in Rochester and left the little girls with them while she went to Madison, Wisconsin to do a residency in anesthesia, arriving there on December 7, 1941.
She and her daughters spent the war years in her parents' home, while she worked as staff anesthesiologist at St. Mary's Hospital. In 1945, she joined the anesthesia department at the Reading Hospital in Berks County, PA and lived in Wyomissing until 1950, when she joined Craig Larimer, MD in the anesthesia practice here in Colorado Springs.
When her daughters had both graduated from high school and gone on to college, Norma filled her free time with community service, serving a term as Chief of Staff at Memorial Hospital, several terms as a board member for the (non-profit) Rocky Mountain Rehabilitation Center, the Visiting Nurses Association, Parents Anonymous, and the Girls' Club, and working as a volunteer for many years at the Episcopal Women's Thrift House. She was also a long-time member of the Soroptomist Club, the Fine Arts Center, and Grace Episcopal Church.
In 1961 Norma married Tabor E. Utley, a well-known local artist, and moved to his hand-made adobe house north of town. They enjoyed traveling and entertaining friends, and she developed flower gardens "in keeping" with the style of their home. She transferred her church membership to the Church of St. Michael the Archangel soon after it was founded and spent untold hours on a wide variety of responsibilities, including establishing the church library, membership in the vestry, and serving on several pastor selection committees.
She also served on the Executive Council of the Episcopal Diocese of Colorado, on the diocesan Commission on Aging, and as a Provincial Coordinator for the Episcopal Society for Ministry on Aging. Mr. Utley died in 1978; Norma moved into assisted living in 1993 and to Cheyenne Mountain Care Center in 1994.
Her family is forever grateful for the extraordinarily loving care lavished on her by every member of the staff of the Care Center, especially those assigned to Columbine Station, from her early years when she was an active participant in the Residents' Council right through the final months, when she had mostly withdrawn into her own world and no longer responded to their efforts with even a smile.
Their unfailing kindness was an enduring comfort to us as well as to our mother and grandmother. Norma is survived by her daughters and their husbands: Nancy and Joseph Ellin of Kalamazoo, Michigan, and Carol Bowles and David G. MacPherson, of Colorado Springs; grandchildren Timothy Parker (SuzanneTrottier) of Portsmouth, NH; David Ellin (Christine Ellin) of Seattle, WA; Jane Ellin (Rory dela Paz) of Brookline, MA; and Libby Tyndale (Sudarshan Chawathe) of Trenton, ME, and by three great-grandsons and a great grand-daughter who is due to arrive next week.
Preceding her in death were her parents, her twin brother, both husbands, and her younger brother, Robert J. Bloor, M.D., late of Pueblo West.
A memorial service will be held on Thursday, July 3 at 2:00 p.m. at St. Michael's Episcopal Church, 7400 Tudor Road. In lieu of flowers, Norma requested that contributions be made to St. Michael's Church or to a rehabilitation-related charity of the donor's choice.
Norma Bloor Bowles Utley died on June 21, 2008 at the age of 103. She was born in Pullman, Washington on March 25, 1905 to Walter Ray and Cleo Holt Bloor.
When she was two years old, her family traveled across Canada by train to Cambridge, MA, stopping for a few weeks in her father's hometown, Ingersoll, Ontario, where Norma and her twin brother came down with diphtheria; her brother did not survive.
Her mother educated her at home until she was eight years old, when she asked to go to "real" school and was enrolled in a public school in Brookline, MA, where she was placed in fifth grade.
A few years later, her father accepted a teaching post at Washington University in St. Louis; her second brother was born there on her 11th birthday. When Norma was fifteen, the family drove across country to Berkeley, CA, where her father taught at the University of California and she graduated from high school in 1922.
At that time there were then few, if any, paved roads between the Mississippi River and San Francisco and no motels at all; they camped along the road, and spent more than a week at the lodge in Yellowstone Park, while her brother recovered from measles.
One last cross-country drive took the family to Rochester, New York, where her father became founding Associate Dean of the Medical School at the University of Rochester. Norma graduated from The University of Rochester and, after spending a year in Cleveland, Ohio earning a Master's degree in physiology, was awarded the Doctor of Medicine degree by The University of Rochester School of Medicine in 1931.
After internship at Bellevue Hospital in New York City, she did a residency in pediatrics at Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester, NY, where she fell in love with a fellow resident, Arthur R. Bowles. They lived in Valhalla, NY until their second daughter was born, then in Canandaigua, NY, and Winnetka, Illinois, where Dr. Arthur Bowles died, in 1941 at the age of 35. Norma returned to her parents' home in Rochester and left the little girls with them while she went to Madison, Wisconsin to do a residency in anesthesia, arriving there on December 7, 1941.
She and her daughters spent the war years in her parents' home, while she worked as staff anesthesiologist at St. Mary's Hospital. In 1945, she joined the anesthesia department at the Reading Hospital in Berks County, PA and lived in Wyomissing until 1950, when she joined Craig Larimer, MD in the anesthesia practice here in Colorado Springs.
When her daughters had both graduated from high school and gone on to college, Norma filled her free time with community service, serving a term as Chief of Staff at Memorial Hospital, several terms as a board member for the (non-profit) Rocky Mountain Rehabilitation Center, the Visiting Nurses Association, Parents Anonymous, and the Girls' Club, and working as a volunteer for many years at the Episcopal Women's Thrift House. She was also a long-time member of the Soroptomist Club, the Fine Arts Center, and Grace Episcopal Church.
In 1961 Norma married Tabor E. Utley, a well-known local artist, and moved to his hand-made adobe house north of town. They enjoyed traveling and entertaining friends, and she developed flower gardens "in keeping" with the style of their home. She transferred her church membership to the Church of St. Michael the Archangel soon after it was founded and spent untold hours on a wide variety of responsibilities, including establishing the church library, membership in the vestry, and serving on several pastor selection committees.
She also served on the Executive Council of the Episcopal Diocese of Colorado, on the diocesan Commission on Aging, and as a Provincial Coordinator for the Episcopal Society for Ministry on Aging. Mr. Utley died in 1978; Norma moved into assisted living in 1993 and to Cheyenne Mountain Care Center in 1994.
Her family is forever grateful for the extraordinarily loving care lavished on her by every member of the staff of the Care Center, especially those assigned to Columbine Station, from her early years when she was an active participant in the Residents' Council right through the final months, when she had mostly withdrawn into her own world and no longer responded to their efforts with even a smile.
Their unfailing kindness was an enduring comfort to us as well as to our mother and grandmother. Norma is survived by her daughters and their husbands: Nancy and Joseph Ellin of Kalamazoo, Michigan, and Carol Bowles and David G. MacPherson, of Colorado Springs; grandchildren Timothy Parker (SuzanneTrottier) of Portsmouth, NH; David Ellin (Christine Ellin) of Seattle, WA; Jane Ellin (Rory dela Paz) of Brookline, MA; and Libby Tyndale (Sudarshan Chawathe) of Trenton, ME, and by three great-grandsons and a great grand-daughter who is due to arrive next week.
Preceding her in death were her parents, her twin brother, both husbands, and her younger brother, Robert J. Bloor, M.D., late of Pueblo West.
A memorial service will be held on Thursday, July 3 at 2:00 p.m. at St. Michael's Episcopal Church, 7400 Tudor Road. In lieu of flowers, Norma requested that contributions be made to St. Michael's Church or to a rehabilitation-related charity of the donor's choice.
When she was two years old, her family traveled across Canada by train to Cambridge, MA, stopping for a few weeks in her father's hometown, Ingersoll, Ontario, where Norma and her twin brother came down with diphtheria; her brother did not survive.
Her mother educated her at home until she was eight years old, when she asked to go to "real" school and was enrolled in a public school in Brookline, MA, where she was placed in fifth grade.
A few years later, her father accepted a teaching post at Washington University in St. Louis; her second brother was born there on her 11th birthday. When Norma was fifteen, the family drove across country to Berkeley, CA, where her father taught at the University of California and she graduated from high school in 1922.
At that time there were then few, if any, paved roads between the Mississippi River and San Francisco and no motels at all; they camped along the road, and spent more than a week at the lodge in Yellowstone Park, while her brother recovered from measles.
One last cross-country drive took the family to Rochester, New York, where her father became founding Associate Dean of the Medical School at the University of Rochester. Norma graduated from The University of Rochester and, after spending a year in Cleveland, Ohio earning a Master's degree in physiology, was awarded the Doctor of Medicine degree by The University of Rochester School of Medicine in 1931.
After internship at Bellevue Hospital in New York City, she did a residency in pediatrics at Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester, NY, where she fell in love with a fellow resident, Arthur R. Bowles. They lived in Valhalla, NY until their second daughter was born, then in Canandaigua, NY, and Winnetka, Illinois, where Dr. Arthur Bowles died, in 1941 at the age of 35. Norma returned to her parents' home in Rochester and left the little girls with them while she went to Madison, Wisconsin to do a residency in anesthesia, arriving there on December 7, 1941.
She and her daughters spent the war years in her parents' home, while she worked as staff anesthesiologist at St. Mary's Hospital. In 1945, she joined the anesthesia department at the Reading Hospital in Berks County, PA and lived in Wyomissing until 1950, when she joined Craig Larimer, MD in the anesthesia practice here in Colorado Springs.
When her daughters had both graduated from high school and gone on to college, Norma filled her free time with community service, serving a term as Chief of Staff at Memorial Hospital, several terms as a board member for the (non-profit) Rocky Mountain Rehabilitation Center, the Visiting Nurses Association, Parents Anonymous, and the Girls' Club, and working as a volunteer for many years at the Episcopal Women's Thrift House. She was also a long-time member of the Soroptomist Club, the Fine Arts Center, and Grace Episcopal Church.
In 1961 Norma married Tabor E. Utley, a well-known local artist, and moved to his hand-made adobe house north of town. They enjoyed traveling and entertaining friends, and she developed flower gardens "in keeping" with the style of their home. She transferred her church membership to the Church of St. Michael the Archangel soon after it was founded and spent untold hours on a wide variety of responsibilities, including establishing the church library, membership in the vestry, and serving on several pastor selection committees.
She also served on the Executive Council of the Episcopal Diocese of Colorado, on the diocesan Commission on Aging, and as a Provincial Coordinator for the Episcopal Society for Ministry on Aging. Mr. Utley died in 1978; Norma moved into assisted living in 1993 and to Cheyenne Mountain Care Center in 1994.
Her family is forever grateful for the extraordinarily loving care lavished on her by every member of the staff of the Care Center, especially those assigned to Columbine Station, from her early years when she was an active participant in the Residents' Council right through the final months, when she had mostly withdrawn into her own world and no longer responded to their efforts with even a smile.
Their unfailing kindness was an enduring comfort to us as well as to our mother and grandmother. Norma is survived by her daughters and their husbands: Nancy and Joseph Ellin of Kalamazoo, Michigan, and Carol Bowles and David G. MacPherson, of Colorado Springs; grandchildren Timothy Parker (SuzanneTrottier) of Portsmouth, NH; David Ellin (Christine Ellin) of Seattle, WA; Jane Ellin (Rory dela Paz) of Brookline, MA; and Libby Tyndale (Sudarshan Chawathe) of Trenton, ME, and by three great-grandsons and a great grand-daughter who is due to arrive next week.
Preceding her in death were her parents, her twin brother, both husbands, and her younger brother, Robert J. Bloor, M.D., late of Pueblo West.
A memorial service will be held on Thursday, July 3 at 2:00 p.m. at St. Michael's Episcopal Church, 7400 Tudor Road. In lieu of flowers, Norma requested that contributions be made to St. Michael's Church or to a rehabilitation-related charity of the donor's choice.
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